Posts Tagged ‘Global Warming’

California Republicans shunning one traditional path to victory: the environment

For decades, Republicans who won statewide office in California found success, at least in part, by showing sensitivity to voters’ commitment to protecting the environment. But with state unemployment hovering at more than 12%, the two GOP candidates at…

You can’t explain away climate change

You probably won’t hear it from columnist George F. Will, Fox News commentators or the plethora of conservative blogs that have claimed global warming essentially stopped in 1998, but recent figures released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…

Utility officials unfazed by rejection

Local utility officials say they aren’t fazed by a decision from Maryland energy regulators who, citing unfair charges to customers, rejected a smart meter project similar to those being implemented in Burbank and Glendale.

Baltimore Gas and Electric…

Making more U.S.-made power

The dramatic images of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico serve as a stark reminder that America needs to transition to a new clean energy economy.

It’s time for Congress to get serious and enact a bill that will promote cleaner domestic power sources,…

Judge to rule on deep-water drilling moratorium

Inside New Orleans’ federal courthouse Monday, a judge was deliberating the points of law that could determine the fate of the Obama administration’s six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling.

Outside, Lucy Lailhengue was marching up and down Poydras…